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Condemned the u. S. Secretary of states unprecedented visit to an illegal israeli settlement. And the occupied Golan Heights. He stammered, and all your support returns to spain and says hes tired of always being blamed for problems at barcelona. Welcome to the news i could have a Company British pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its a vaccine is showing promise and protecting those groups that are most at risk from the coronavirus working in collaboration with the university of oxford. The vaccine shows a strong immune response in those aged over 70 in its phase 2 trials. Its the 3rd western drug maker to report positive news on the vaccine front. In the last 10 days, even as cases continue to rise. Charlie angela reports more good news in the fight, to get corona virus this time from the u. K. , after 99 percent of volunteers, given the oxford astra, zeneca vaccine developed antibodies to cope with 19. These are the results from the phase 2 trials using 564. 00 in tis result in the largest phase. 3 trials will be published in the next few weeks, but the powerful immune response is generating an adult over 60 is particularly promising as typically vaccines dont work as well. You know, older people, the editor of the scientific journal that reviewed the data, says this vaccine is different to those produced by madonna. And pfizer, by antec, about scenes are based on a technology called m. R. N. A. This vaccine is different because the spike protein, which provokes the immune response, is by recombinant novarro vector, a virus which the cell its hates entry, protein into the human. The oak said that scene had been a front runner in the global race, but was overtaken by rivals, madonna, and pfizer. Their phase 3 trials showed more than 90 percent effectiveness and are now pressing ahead with distribution plans we have of course to create or to his vision approval. If, if everything goes down quick start to mix in, kill your and United States in the 2nd half to stand. And, and you can see that, of course, as a christmas present, even once approved, there will be huge challenges in manufacturing and supply chains. Pfizers vaccine needs to be stored at minus 75. 00 degrees celsius, which could hamper distribution asked for what does my feeling. Meanwhile, countries are scrambling to sign contracts to secure doses for their population. Chinas sign novak is already arriving in brazil. The country hit hard by current virus is importing some 46000000 doses to be used if it is approved aljazeera. Globally cases of the past 56000000, there have been more than 1300000 deaths worldwide. 250000 of those in the u. S. Making it the worst affected country by far africa has recorded more than 2000000. 00 cases so far. And there are fears that the actual figure could be much higher as testing rates are quite low across the continent. The World Health Organization blames the rise in infections there on family gatherings, interaction at work, and election campaigns and interests has more now from abuja in nigeria, theres seems to be some for tea or some kind of fatigue. In the past 2 of africans. We just came back from an election in ivory coast and what you notice there and across many subsaharan african countries is that people where very few people wear masks this days. Social distancing is still a problem, and crowds gather in large numbers. Most of the people you see in such crowds dont wear a face mask. Experts are warning that as the how much dusty season kicks in. In a few weeks or a few days. We were going to see we are going to see a lot of cases of covered 19 for example in nigeria for the last 2 months, only a few dozen cases were reported each day. But today, the center for Disease Control yet released its results, saying that in the past 48 hours more than 200 cases were recorded and it warned that this could increase as people abundant safety precautions use of trees lost and of course, social distancing the issue of vaccines is good news for many africans, but remember, this is a very, very hot continent. Most parts of the continent is very hot. The storage of these boxes is a problem with a shortage in electricity supplies and all that could be a problem delivering such data storage areas. Hard, accessible rural areas will also be a contributor, a factor too. Are these boxes may not necessarily which people quickly professor bloom is a Regional Representative for at the center of africa, the research arm of doctors without borders. He says, despite 2000000 cases, the continent has seen a relatively lower death toll. Yes, actually 1st of all we need to define what because at just a few what you see in kenya, for example, the number of kids are not done during the 1st wave, but does for free the number of kids are no more death. So despite a higher number of kids, so knowing the stupid laws not of yet, and we dont really expect to have mention all done previously because the actual target population worked with the people listed in africa. So how are your population in my still be advantage for the country in africa . Those are 54 countries. So like that because it is what we esteem that country or south africa are still having an order number of cases as well. Are those countries that are quite close to europe, moral core 70000 kids for the last 2 weeks . Seem to be for needy, are for algeria and so on. But what is interesting us has been mentioning nigeria and how countries like kenya and kenya, i think last week you have 4 doctors, one died because they were north because in the hospital to the countdown e. T. , an important increasing number of cases that whether country like uganda doctors and syrias lost rebel stronghold are warning of the catastrophic consequences of covert 19, it led province. The un says daily infections of increased by 300 percent in the last month. Rhetorical big as the story. It province has been battered by the syrian conflict and now in its 10th year, the last rebel controlled glave in the northwest is home to nearly 4000000. People most depend on aid to survive and many live in makeshift shelters. In camps for the displaced it live reported its 1st Coronavirus Infection in july. Since then, the number of people infected has increased rapidly to 11 and a half 1000 a day. This on the last 5 to 10 years of dealing with bombing casualties and the targeting of health facilities. The coronavirus pandemic has really increased the burden on us if cases of cover 19 continue to increase. The Health Sector will completely collapse. It has 8 hospitals that can treat cave in 1000 patients, but the u. N. Says 7 already overwhelmed and each one is desperately short of the quick meant. There are 142. 00 i. C. U. Beds and 155. 00 ventilators, to cover the entire region. The name of the beds in the intensive care unit are completely full. We have around 30 pads, all of which are occupied with patients upstairs. We have another department with 30 beds and we have 30 patients in that department to. 6 the outbreak has mostly affected adlib city safe, but the fear is the virus could spread to overcrowded camps where social distancing is difficult to be reconsidered. The situation is. Ready very worrying and it didnt in 100 percent true that we have, we are in 90 percent of better company. It is very, very hard to be doing because you dont have a system to increase the number of beds you dont really know for the patients. And critically, patients is a very, very reduced. So we are really worried about this negotiation in india, the grade of r. s pandemic has severely tested the worlds best health care services, serious destroyed by years have, who is facing its biggest challenge yet to be there. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention is recommending americans do not travel during the thanksgiving holiday next week to mitigate the spread of coronavirus. The c. D. C. Says its alarmed by the exponential increase in cases hospitalizations and deaths. More than a 1000000 cases have been reported in the past week. The situation is so bad, states and cities are imposing new restrictions. New york city has decided to close schools to prevent more infections. Well, Election Officials in the u. S. State of georgia, iran due to announce the outcome of a recount of the votes. The top campaign lawyers also holding a press conference to detail what the u. S. President tweeted a few hours ago as a very clear and viable path to victory, president elect joe biden is the projected winner with 306 electoral votes. While trump has 232 of the very latest on this from our white house correspondent, kimberly how it in washington d. C. Lets begin with the vote count in georgia. Its a recount that, kimberly, what are we expecting . And really will this be a time when we can draw the line under the georgia vote . I think we can do that on friday. That is when the state will officially certify its results. Right now, whats happening is there we are awaiting a report that should be out any time on a hand count that was triggered because the race between joe biden and donald trump was so close. What we are expecting is this report will confirm the narrow lead for joe biden of about 14000. 00 votes. Although of interest to some republicans are the reports that there were at least more than 2000 votes that were not counted initially for donald trump that could be factored in, potentially reducing that lead by joe biden. But still expecting it to be at least 12800. So this is something thats being watched very carefully because donald trump would certainly need to win georgia for this long shot effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election that currently has joe biden as projected winner. But right now what were understanding and hearing in terms of this report is that it is unlikely to do what donald trump is hoping it will achieve. And indeed, hes also hoping that his press conference really being headed up by Rudy Giuliani can certainly tell the public at large what they sort of path to victory will be. Theyve been speaking for about an hour or so now. Yeah, and at times its been a sort of unwieldy news conference, but the have line of it there seem to be 2. Number one there is going to be a lawsuit filed on friday in georgia. And again, as weve been talking about it, timing is everything because thats the day the votes are supposed to be certified by the trump campaign. And the 2nd thing that this press conference has been calling for is a criminal investigation by the department of justice. Now weve not seen any of the evidence presented by the trump campaign, but what it says is that its a mass to evidence that there is a coordinated or on election day. There was a coordinated effort by a number of different cities that it was spearheaded in one place to challenge the votes that were being cast. In other words, it was done in a number of ways, whether it was people voting multiple times whether it was a manipulation of voting machines. Many of the allegations that weve heard already from the truck campaign, but now it says it has evidence of a coordinated effort, even alleging that this was funded by prominent democrats as the clinton foundation, and even the flat 3 pissed george soros. Again, we have no way to verify these claims. They will have to be put forward in a court of law or investigated by law enforcement, which today this has not been done. But what i can tell you is that this is been an Interesting Press conference to say the least because the allegations are that much of this was even coordinated outside the United States, through the influence of communist money as the Campaign Calls it in cuba. In venezuela and even they say potentially china again, unproven, the evidence has not been shared. So theres going to be a big burden of proof on the campaign to do so. When it says it reveals all of this in a lawsuit on friday, because up till now, these allegations by the trunk campaign have not stood up in court. Can we count that with the very latest for assault from the want to toss that strenuous well plenty ahead here on the aljazeera news hour, including moving forward on the final offensive. The Ethiopian Government says its closing in on grays main city. Plus colombians commemorate the anniversary of large antigovernment demonstrations and a Major League Baseball star forfeits his 24000000. 00 salary. After failing a drugs test thats coming up with peter in sports at least 16 people have been killed in uganda during protests. By the arrest of opposition, politician bobby wine, 350 people were arrested in the unrest and Security Forces shot at supporters of the pop star turned politician. As they demonstrated, after wind was detained on wednesday, officials have accused him of violating coronavirus restrictions while campaigning for the upcoming president ial election and the un has called for bobby once immediate release. Malcolm webb has more from nairobi in neighboring kenya. His Spokesman Says hes in a high Security Police facility, which is in the eastern city of ginger. Thats not so far from where he was arrested when he was campaigning. Police havent confirmed where he is, but the winds lawyers and the spokesman of complaining as and being given access to legal representation or to his medical team. Theyre worried that he might be injured. Theyre waiting to see if or when he might be produced in front of a court. Yesterdays wife shared on social media media want to appear to be a charge sheet saying that hed be charged with offenses relating to spreading, causing the spread of disease that refers to the rallies that have been holding which visibly have much larger crowds than the ministry of health and limit of 200. 00, which is ostensibly to prevent transmission. All the other thing that might happen is that probably one might be taken back to his home discretely. Hes been arrested several times before and often the Security Services in with bobby wine and with other prominent opposition, politicians in an attempt to quell the unrest. Try to take those people home, maybe late in the night, so that people dont continue protesting on the streets. But they certainly face between with a couple of tough options. Now theres nearly 2 months to go before this election. And if they allow these rallies to continue, that says well local calling to the government will be problematic for covert 19, although his supporters believe these restrictions are simply to stop people. Seeing how popular a year is nearing to grays main city of mccarley in what it calls its final offensive. After more than 2 weeks of fighting with the regions leaders, the Prime Ministers chance for says its close to ending the cold slicked. Berman says, the government is still working out how badly people have been affected by the fighting. I dont think, given the government knows the true extent of the humanitarian situation on the ground. Thats why they said today that they are sending a task force to look into the gravity of the situation on the ground. Even before the war started, there were hundreds of thousands of people who depended on food aid into region. They had to be fed by the charities. The charities have been unable to replenish their talk of relief, food in the past 2 weeks. Vehicles laden with relief and food supplies. Us talk at the border. The ticket a region has with them how to region. Weve been informed of long queues for bread, not just mckenna, but all the other towns in the to grey region. There are also of the thousands upon thousands of refugees from at a trail who live within the ticket, a region, and humanitarian sources. Tell us that this is, this has gotten worse. The peter, the fighting has been going on and its only bound to get worse. And then that call of people to the ton, i dont know how theyre going to cut it out, but these people fresh out of their homes. Theyve seen the amount of, you know, impunity and a toxic out of the gate is their neighbors. The must like of people, particularly in small towns like my country, where hundreds of people were beheaded with knives and machetes. So its highly unlikely that those people of the trucking all the way to saddam would be able to the ton, soon as the government is putting it, my pump has become the 1st u. S. Secretary of state to visit an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank. And to step foot in the occupied Golan Heights from players in israel, has part of a 10 day tour of the middle east and europe. Earlier he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said illegal settlements can be, and we quote, lawful and proper not. Pompei also said the us would be stepping up action on the boycott, movement against israel. We will regard the global any israel b. D. S. Campaign is anti sematic. I know this is simple to you, mr. Prime minister seems it seems like a statement of fact, but i want you to know that we will immediately take steps to identify organizations that engage in hateful b. D. S. Gondor can withdraw our u. S. Government support for such groups. How we force it, has this update from ramallah in the occupied west bank . We palestinian reaction has been pretty strong. Senior members of the palestinian leadership saying that the United States through this action is now not just a sponsor of the israeli occupation, but an active partner in it. This was a visit to the sangatte settlement opposite the palestinian town of algeria in the occupied west bank just very close to ramallah. Its an area where there are a lot of us Palestinian Joint nationals who say that this visit has taken place on the stolen property. What he was visiting was a winery which was involved in a court case last year in the European Court of justice, which ruled that all products coming from israeli settlements, including the wind from this settlement, had to be labeled as such. Not simply as israeli. It was shortly after that that declared a change in u. S. Policy that it would no longer automatically look at settlements in the occupied west bank as contrary to international law. And so as well as being the 1st u. S. Secretary of state to make such a visit itself a very controversial and surprise. At the same time, the u. S. State Department Said it would now mandate all products coming from settlements in the occupied west bank into the u. S. Market, simply as made in israel or products of israel. So in a way thats yet more controversial because it essentially says that the u. S. Views these areas as integrity to israel, whether theres been actual annexation or not. Lets take a look at the b. D. S. Or boycott divestment and sanctions movement. And its goals inspired by the south african anti apartheid movement. It wants to apply economic and cultural pressure to israel. The object objectives are ending the occupation of all and captured since 1967, and securing the right of return for Palestinian Refugees and their descendants. Now they call for a boycott of what they say are complicit israeli institutions. And they encourage companies and organizations from around the world to withdraw their financial investments. Theyre also pressure. They also pressure governments to sanction and ban all trading goods produced in israels illegal settlements. Ariel gold is National Coordinator of code, pink women for peace, and a supporter of the b. D. S. Movement joins me now via skype from ithaca in the u. S. Could have you with us live on aljazeera. I mean, whats your reaction to secretary pompei is claim that the b. D. S. Is anti semitic. Thank you so much for having me. So rageous that condi and like boy cut movement would be labeled as antisemitic. Now that said, we shouldnt be surprised, given the trumpet ministrations efforts at every turn to prop up the apartheid state of israel and to shield it from international criticism. Israeli politicians said at the beginning of Trumps Administration have said again recently as trump lost the election, that they will that they want to use every opportunity of the trumpet ministration to further their objectives. And these are their objectives to steal more land and to cement their systems of occupation and apartheid. Now that all of this is so ironic as anti semitism has spiked dave injuriously under trumps presidency, thanks to his administration. And the republican partys willingness to trade it in tolerate antisemitic tropes and social views that he wants to get into as well. What the b. D. S. Stands for. So you as part of code pink, our organization that supports the b. D. S. What do you do as an organization that supports the b. D. S. . What you practically do . Well look, we had code pink, we heard of. Can we organize didnt lead to success coal boycott campaigns, one against the israeli Cosmetics Company of harbor which had been located in an illegal settlement in the west bank and the other against soda stream, along with our partners, which had also been located in an illegal settlement in the west bank and we actually got those companies out of the west bank. We could take, we also have been advocating over the past couple years for members of u. S. Congress to support conditioning. U. S. Military assistance to israel on israel end, its violations of palestinian human rights. And weve just in congress were watching members of Congress Speak out and put conditioning u. S. Military assistance on the table. So were really making headway, and this is a desperate attempt by the transit ministration. Idiot, i mean the, just to clarify as well, again, for our viewers, our code pink, a violent organization . Yes or no . Absolutely not. Do you break hungry . Actually thats why i dont use it just the longer side to someone would replies or do you break the law in any shape or form that would ascend israel, the state of israel, or the United States . Yes or no . No. So how are the many prominent jewish organizations, for example, and individuals who support the b. D. S. Globally going to move forward if theyre labeled anti semitic . Well, this isnt new for us. In january 28th, keen israel identified 20 international organizations, including code pink and jewish groups like jewish voice for peace, and announce that we were banned from israel. And israel did, in fact, deport me based on this loss of a. It isnt surprising, they send that. Now, we. d have code pink in many of our Partner Organizations that we collaborate with, like jewish voice for peace. We are individual donor funded. We are grassroots organizations. So we operate from that objective. We do not receive u. S. Government funding. We expect suit to go on and continue to boycott the state of israel. And you know, if, if the u. S. Administration is going to make it hard to identify settlement versus products inside israel, they were 1st of all already, intertwined with each other. And it just solidifies the fact that all of israel is complicit in these violations of human rights ariel. Just very briefly, we have a president elect and joe biden taking the helm in just a few weeks time. Do you think its going to make any difference if he sits in the oval office . Well, were certainly going to be campaigning to ask biden, to reverse this and something that gives me optimism is that joe biden, though he doesnt support b. D. S. , he did say during his campaign that he recognizes it as a protected form of free speech. And so were going to go from there and we have our work cut out for us. Mostly what happens, its been good to speak to thank you very much for your time. Ariel gold, the National Coordinator of keeping funds to time. Thank you so much. Still ahead here on aljazeera, a necessary counterbalance of an occupying force. We look at how people in iraq feel about the presence of u. S. Troops and war crime suspects. Australian soldiers are accused of killing civilians and prisoners while serving in afghanistan. If any edwards from the university of georgia, an n. B. A. Draft with a difference as the delayed annual take of the best College Players goes ahead in the pandemic. All of those stories coming up after the break. Hello mostly the regular police is quite quiet at the moment. But in the arabian sea, theres a circulation forming that might increase the shower likelihood insert or the whole of iraq, or even ones who showers in among more likely and rather more widespread is whats happening in the eastern med yet another circulation is developing here. So that will bring rain into the demand across syria and across iraq in the shadow spread dancer, saudi arabia with snow on the heights of iran. This isnt unusual weather that is not going to be repeating weather for the next few months. Now said the arabian sea was active, so is the indian ocean. Currently, we are free from circulation to turn into hurricanes, but its been wet recently in northern madagascar. And weve seen a fair amount of rain spread, dance around, go to then towards namibia as well as for south africa, once again, were generating showers in the east. So need johannesburg. And cape towns warmed up to 30. That will not last the wind directions change, it will cool down again. I would like to see the forecast a proper right in the puter, but we just got southeast of these coming in. So the next couple days there will be some rain in some parts of mozambique, but the concentrations fairly, obviously botswana and then again, in south africa, we are going home to both line. When modern mankind originate many moons ago mankind migrated from the majestic to begin the journey of the modern human across the worlds. And as the dust settles, everyone is welcome back home to our pride. Your destination. France once had, a vast empire spanning several continents. But by the 1940, s. , the french were forced to confront reality and to moms face dependence. And a fast part of a new documentary series, aljazeera looks at how the colonial unrest brewed conflict and algeria, and full scale war in indochina, blood and chants, french to colonize ation on aljazeera. Ruth . Oh. Book about to the news i would be so rotten a reminder of our top stories there are promising results from a krone virus vaccine developed by the university of oxford and astra zeneca. The latest phase 2 findings show strong immune response was triggered in those aged over 70. Also, the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention is recommending americans do not travel during the thanksgiving holiday next week to mitigate the spread of the virus. The c. D. C. Says its alarmed by the exponential increase in cases hospitalizations and deaths, and at least 16 people have been killed in uganda during protests sparked by the arrest of Opposition Leader bobby, why 350 people were detained in the under arrest. Security forces shot of supporters of the pop star turned politician total trumps campaign. Lawyers are holding a press conference to detail what the u. S. President s tweeted in the past few hours as a very clear and viable path to victory. President elect joe biden is the projected winner with 306 electoral votes. While trump 232 chris saints is associate professor of legal studies and Political Science at the university of new haven and joins me now via skype. From milford, in the state of connecticut, good to have you with us. I mean trumps Team Continues to peddle the line of Election Fraud of the courts continue to throw out those cases, but all the reasons why theyre being thrown out, elaborated all for trump, supporters. So they too can understand the error of those appeals. Well, you had me listen to this press conference. Whats done, fox news . If i was a trump supporter, id probably find a lot of persuasive arguments that they make that really feed into what i want to believe. That said, they presented some anecdotal evidence on a number of different sworn affidavits, primarily tennis, substantiate their cases that there was fraud. The problem is theyre not there and the case for substantial fraud or decisive fraud is nowhere near made. The most important and notable all kind of argument they have is a very kind of flimsy conspiratorial theory about how in dominion can a company had an algorithm which changed votes. But thats been something that has already been looked into and you, but its in so they make it clear, its very persuasively. And if i had no knowledge about the subject, i might believe it. And so thats, you know, i actually kind of concerning that said the trump team does deserve its day in court and well see what happens with these newly filed cases. Indeed, i mean, but the cases that weve already heard about that have been going to various courts across the disorder of disputed states are running into problems are really into dead ends. Is there anything else that can do to overturn this . It seems that we are coming to a natural end. It seems, it seems like thats the case, but you know from this press conference that Rudy Giuliani just a it doesnt seem that way to them. But the problem that they have is these vote margins in states like michigan and pennsylvania are so substantial that the only thing that could overturn Something Like this is systematic voter irregularities and fraud on the scale of their allegation against the minion. But those allegations just are not found in any evidence and have no basis in any evidence. And so the chances of that happening is very, very slim. So how is this really a concession by president truck damaging sort of the smooth transfer of information personnel for the biden team to hit the ground running in january 2, primary ways and 2 important ways . Number one, its denying president elect joe biden. The president ial daily brief and National Security information on potential threats and current operations. So he could actually hit the ground running when he takes office, come january 20th. But more importantly, its denying him and his team in his Coronavirus Task force, the ability to, to interface with the government, to figure out what supplies they have. What are the plans for distribution of these 2 . Very phenomenally successful. Hopefully, new vaccines come january. If that process, this is delayed, that could means thousands and thousands of more deaths. Well, for the moment to experience that chris haynes, associate professor of legal studies and Political Science at the university of new haven, thanks for your time. Absolute. Thank you. But just as a big gathering columbias combo to mark one year since massive antigovernment demonstrations being led by unionists, students, teachers, and members of colombias indigenous communities. Last year, plans for a labor strike escalated into widespread protests against president even do case social and economic policies. And sent this update by the navy and proud that 3 other cities across a decent crowd by general colombian standards when it comes to demonstrations and protests that were clearly not even close. Well, weve seen obviously a lot of that had to do with the kind that make that everybody wants to throw at me that context and definitely dont mind that it will be difficult for these people. She managed to do right here, which is to sit down and start to see a serious social and economic government when it comes to the story that they see with the reality that the government keep pace with the kind of reform and also the fact that there has been a lot of violence here in the country. The uns acting in libya and boy has bring things Security Council of the country that comes after rival sides held talks last week in tunisia, they agreed to hold elections late next year. But negotiators failed to name a unity government. In recent months, libyas u. N. Recognized government has made gains against war khalifa, haftar us forces after he launched a military offensive to take the capital tripoli out diplomatic editor. James bass is following developments from un headquarters in new york. Well certainly there are some on the un Security Council who are describing recent developments. As a breakthrough. You do know have a fragile cease far in place. You do have an ambitious plan that would lead to elections in just over a years toy, but of course you dont yet have that unity government in place. And the u. N. Acting special representative, Stephanie Williams said there were still many challenges ahead. I am optimistic about the way forward libya yet clear are right about the many challenges that lie ahead 10 years of war. It cannot be solved one week of political talks that we hear more now the language of peace rather than the language of war. For the sake of libya, 75 libyans came together in tunis last week in good faith effort to start the process of healing their nations. They sat, they talked as they stand at the. Well, how did it . It standeth their hands, if not their hearts to each other. I think it will be very interesting to see what the turkish president says. If he visits tripoli, he has been very much on one side of this conflict, or though turkeys position has been that hes been there, bolstering and effectively saving the internationally recognized government. Of course things have moved on. There is now supposed to be soon a new unity government taking place in a moment. The parts of the deals that have been done, Foreign Forces, all Foreign Forces we soon, that also includes Turkish Forces are supposed to leave libya by early next year. This is going potentially to be a headache for the u. N. Security council in the coming weeks because another part of the deal says that there should be international monitors coming in to have a ceasefire to monitor the cease fire, the fragile cease fire in libya, this is going to require a lot of negotiation for a new resolution. And of course, one of the other countries that has forces in libya is russia. There are russian mercenaries in libya. So getting russia to sign on to the words for a new resolution are going to be difficult to. The u. S. Has announced a drawdown of troops in iraq from 30022500, as part of president doubleton spade. To fulfill a Campaign Promise to end 4 walls, the new users draw mixed reactions from iraqs capital, which worlds again is dealing with the aftermath of rocket attacks. Samina 14 has more from baghdad. This is the latest victim of a geo political struggle playing out on iraqi soil. 18 year old not be of man was killed when rockets targeted the u. S. Embassy in baghdad. She is the 8th civilian to die in iraq as a result of attacks between u. S. Forces and iranian backed groups in recent months. So i dont know where we dont know where these rockets are coming from, but the civilians are the victims. The problems are between america and iran, and the residents are the victims. During tuesdays attack of the u. S. Deployed a recently installed air defense system, also known as to protect its fortified embassy, but civilians in nearby areas were not spared. This is the moment, suffered fatal injuries just outside the entrance to a popular park in the center of the capital. The attack came minutes after the Trump Administration announced a drawdown from 30022500 u. S. Soldiers, whove been stationed here since 2014 to fight eisel. We will finish this generational war and bring our men and women home. We will protect our children from the heavy burden and toll of perpetual war, but the relatively minor troop reduction isnt enough for pro Iranian Armed groups. We demand the withdrawal of all u. S. Troops. We dont accept a single soldier to stay us attempts to maneuver around directly demand the resolution of the iraqi parliament, which is part of the socalled Islamic Resistance has been accused of targeting u. S. Interests in the past. Last month, the group began a unilateral truce to give the us a chance to meet demands for full troop withdrawal. Type hezbollah denied any involvement in tuesdays attack. While most shia groups are keen to see the u. S. Leave iraq, kurdish and sunni politicians want them to remain. Cobham is part of a sunni bloc in parliament which boycotted a january vote to expel foreign troops. In iraq. The iraqi army is not ready to confront all possible attacks from others because of that, when it came to a vote for the ousting of foreign troops, we believe that this resolution came in a rush. The Iraqi Government has said it wants to continue to cooperate with the u. S. On training and intelligence. Sharing. Iraqis are divided about the presence of u. S. Troops. Some see them as an occupying force. Well, others regard them as a necessary counterbalance to irans influence here. Others again, fear that without the air surveillance and intelligence support from the u. S. Led coalition, iraqi Security Forces could face difficulties in containing isis resurgence seem wonderful to you al jazeera, but the pakistans Prime Minister is in afghanistan. So at all where the president assured garny, its imran khans 1st visit to the country when it comes to peace talks between afghanistan and the taliban have stalled. And theres been more violence between Afghan Forces and the taliban. A long awaited inquiry into the conduct of Australian Special forces in afghanistan has uncovered a culture of secrecy, deceit, and cover up. It found what it called credible evidence of multiple war crimes, including the unlawful killing of 39. 00, civilians and prisoners. The clear gauge has more on the investigation from australias capital canberra. Nearly 2 decades after the 1st destroy in troops were deployed to afghanistan astray as military faced up to some brutal truths, 23 incidents, of alleged killing of 39 people in inquiry commission. Defense force can times what it says is credible evidence of war crimes in afghanistan carried out by the latest rally and special forces soldiers, including initiation, executions with junior soldiers were encouraged to kill prisoners and planting weapons on bodies to conceal unlawful behavior. I sincerely and unreservedly apologize for any wrongdoing by australian soldiers. The inquiry says none of the killings took place in the heat of battle. The victims were unarmed and has recommended 19 soldiers. They investigated. The responsibility lies not only with those who pulled the trigger, they respect the laws of the strength, government, successive australian government, who taken a very short term approach, thinking about what should have been a long term strategy. The report also outlines a culture of secrecy and deceit within astray, special forces. It found no evidence that Senior Leadership knew of any alleged offenses, but it was a failure of higher command to not correct the toxic culture. Well, before your investigation or a special investigator would be appointed to prepare evidence for any possible war crime prosecutions, a process that will walk the inquiry recommends compensation be paid even before the findings end up in court. A move welcomed by families of victims in afghanistan also want at the victims to be eventually participating in the legal proceedings. And not only in this investigation, but also more importantly in the legal, the legal proceedings. And ultimately, the realization of just this, of all the was a stray leader has been involved in afghanistan with the longest. These new revelations will no doubt cast a shadow over strongly. His role in the conflict we can gauge, aljazeera cambra, canadas vast out of territory. One of a call into a 2 week lockdown after a surge in covert 19 infections. The 1st case was reported at the beginning of november. But this week the figures doubled overnight. Reaching 70 on wednesday, alexandra byers, spoke to the premier to find out how bad things could get. For months, it was one of the few places in the world untouched by the pandemic. Well, everyone in the new world is a little scared, wary about darkover right now. Because weve kept it out 4 out of the network or 8 months, but now its here. Its a territory. The size of western europe sparsely populated with just 25 communities, only accessible by plane. But despite its remoteness, new to hasnt been spared by the coronavirus. The majority of cases are in the hamlet of r. V. At a community of just under 3000 people. Most of nunavut citizens are indigenous and you eat. Theyve faced a legacy of canadas colonial policies and are already vulnerable. Jobs are scarce, and a housing shortage means homes are overcrowded. Something thats especially dangerous during a pandemic and a lockdown. Nothing good comes out of overcrowded house. You have Mental Health issues. You have health issues, you may have Family Violence issues. There are only 2 hospitals in the territory, and residents are regularly flown to southern canada for medical treatment. No ones been flown out because of coded 19 yet, but the Health System is nearly at its limit. Thats the rationale for bringing these orders in place because everything that newly and do to reduce their contacts, to reduce the size of their social bubble. That helps, that helps reduce the impact of covert 90 gatherings are restricted schools and nonessential businesses are closed. Theres extra focus on students Mental Health. Its a young population which for years has struggled with high rates of suicide and depression. Theyve been given take Home Learning packages, and teachers and support workers are regularly checking in. One of the newer care for each other. Theyre going to make sure if someone is sick or is alone in the house, theyre going to make sure that theyre taken care to make sure that they have enough food where a very Caring Society and we will be to each other and looking out for each other, its believed many of the cases are linked to isolation hubs in southern canada, where infections are surging. Premiers of eco toss says the territorys isolation is one of its strongest assets right now. And we are going to stop the spread of this virus and we are going to program it may take a little while, but we will. This is a region thats used to being snowed in and cut off 1000 may have gotten in, but the new are confident. It wont stay for long. Alexandra byers, aljazeera well still ahead here on aljazeera find out about the small baseball stadium in texas thats being used to promote cricket in the United States. But about time to support his peter, so thank you very much. Barcelona captain lee l. Macy says hes tired of always being blamed for problems at the club. This was a member turning to spain from International Duty with argentina reporters outside the airport asked him to respond to claims by and one reasons former agent that he has a reign of terror at bar so many trying to leave the club this year, but was forced to stay another season after they refused to trigger, hes released clothes or any other enemy for getting out of it, even if theyre not. Whats your reaction to being called the head of a reign of terror as ours is in progress . You know, to be honest, im a bit tired of always being the problem for everything in this club. And to top it off, i just arrived after a 15 hour flight and get delayed by customs. Its crazy. Now to be asian champions league, which is being hosted inside a quarantine bubble in cutter. Australian side sydney f. C. We were up against showing i. S. I. A p. G. Of china for world cup stadium. Then it was sydney who went ahead through training 3 ball hard but back came shanghai in the 2nd half with an equaliser from unleashing a long. And then we got another to put them here, with only 10 minutes left to play. Was to make it worse for sydney the goalkeeper Thomas Howard ball. Oh goodness me. Whats he doing . Same so for that moment of madness in the 91st minute handling the ball moving 5 metres outside of the box. You cant do that. Female footballers who have families are set to receive better working conditions. Footballs governing body 1st says it will bring in new rules allowing players to take at least 14 weeks of Maternity Leave and still get paid a minimum of 2 thirds of they contracted salary. And also get extra physical support when they return any club that ends a players contract for becoming pregnant could face a fine and might even be banned from the transfer market. For years. The rules are said to be ratified by the fever council in december. Russias on the ruble of has signed off on a positive note, despite elimination from this years a. T. P. Finals in london. The wall number 8 defeated u. S. Open champion dominate team 6275 in his final group stage match. This was the 23 year old 1st appearance at the euro and event. It follows a superb year for him in which he has won 41 matches. Thats more than anyone else on the tour. I mean, i feel actually happy to be here. I mean, i was so close, 2nd match and much more and i was serving so i could be completely different story if i would win too much as i would maybe through had chances to be in same as a newly crowned formula. One world champion, libbers hamilton, says he hopes to have a new contract in place with miss 80. Soon. Hamilton, who won his 7th world title last weekend in turkey, has been with the german team since 2013, but his current deal runs out at the end of the season. We have a lot more to do together, so i am hopeful once we get this direction, still to go all the time to sit and sew and thats a normal were always together in terms of the changes that we can achieve more in terms of when it but former Australian Rugby Union coach michael czech is switching codes to take charge of lebanons rugby league team. He was one of these boss for 5 years until 2019 and has been working as a consultant with argentina. But now is going back to his roots. Both of his parents were migrants from lebanon, who went to australia in the 1950, s. Checker will prepare them for next years Rugby League World cup. Meanwhile, rugby in england has been prioritized in a 400000000. 00 government, bailout designed to help sport survive without fans. During the pandemic around half of it will go to rugby 178000000. 00 to union, and 16000000 for League Womens football gets 4000000, while mens professional football and cricket on not part of the package. One of the biggest stars in Major League Baseball Robinson Curnow has been suspended for the whole of next season for taking performance enhancing drugs. The new york mets 2nd baseman test positive for a banned anabolic steroids has been suspended for 162. 00 games without pay. That will cost him. Hes 24000000. 00 salary. Its not the 1st time. The 38 year old has violated the m. L. Bs drug rules can no served an 80 game suspension in 2018 when playing for the seattle mariners. After months of delays because of the pandemic, the n. B. A. Has held its annual draft, will be a virtually the leagues commissioner. Adam silver announced the number one pick. Well, hopefuls waited at home with their families, with the 1st pick in the 2020 n. B. A. Draft, the minnesota timberwolves, select Anthony Edwards from the university of georgia. It was an emotional moment for edwards, who said surrounded by portraits of his late mother and grandmother who died of cancer. The 19 year old will now get a 4 Year Contract worth 44200000 dollars. Im going to what are we to bring . What i bring to the table and just impact the game other ways like they are making scored about so defensively on impact the game beyond a car, the best car rebound of shame that i could possibly be. And just being locked in and doing whatever to coach me needs me to do to be on. Meanwhile, work has begun on building the 1st of a major cricket venue in the United States. This empty baseball stadium in the dallas suburb of grand, the prayer he is being redeveloped to host major and minor league cricket. It will also be a High Performance center for the national teams. The u. S. Is also planning a joint bid with the west indies to host a future t 20 world cup. Its going to be fun. I tell you some of the baseball. A lot of the same things go on in pitching. Pitchers have similar firm balls and all that, and its just, its going to be a lot of this is the 2nd largest sport in the world that we are bringing to the largest media market in the world. And that sentence alone. It doesnt matter if its cricket or its which it, whenever it is thats just smells of opportunity and thats all the sports need. So thank you peter. Youve been watching aljazeera news. I would be so robin. Robin taylor will be out with more news on the other side of the bike until and from the news on same sex with 100. 00 companies. In under a year, coverage 19 has altered societies and exposed deficiencies in political, social, and economic structures. 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